Blanding, Don

Pilot Bails Out

New York, Dodd Mead & Company, 1943. First Edition, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Don Blanding. Signed by Author(s). 85pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. Book is in clean, unworn condition. Boldly INSCRIBED to Suzie AND SIGNED on the front free endpaper. Laid-in is a typed letter SIGNED "Don", in pencil, to Susie [sic]. In the letter he enthusiastically discusses the promotion of his book. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly chipped and rubbed along edges and folds and slightly darkened. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 002789

Catalogue: Poetry, Signed, Humor

Keywords: "World War I" "World War II" Verse

Derleth, August

It's a Boy's World

Sauk City, Wisconsin, Stanton and Lee, 1948. Limited Edition, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Clare Victor Dwiggins. Signed by Artist. 107pp. Grey pictorial boards. Spine very slightly faded, endpapers age-darkened, book is clean and sound. Unclipped dust jacket is torn along folds, darkened and chipped, but is overall complete. A comics-like pencil sketch by Clare Dwiggins INSCRIBED AND SIGNED "Dwig" on front pastedown. Text is profusely illustrated throughout by Dwiggins. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 004304

Catalogue: Poetry, Signed, Humor

Keywords: Signed